Camden Road Station

CAMDEN

TQ2984SW CAMDEN ROAD 798-1/66/1761 (West side) Camden Road Station

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Includes: No.223 Camden Road Station ROYAL COLLEGE STREET. Includes: Nos.13-23 Camden Road Station BONNY STREET. Station. 1870. By EH Horne. For the North London Railway. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Single bay entrance front on angle between Camden Road and Bonny Street: arched opening with lunette of circular tracery within gauged arch, dentil cornices at first and second floor level, parapet. Camden Road elevation contains shopfront on ground floor set below 2 brick arches; granite drinking fountain in form of a pylon to north, below railway bridge; parapet inscribed in sunken letters CAMDEN TOWN STATION. Bonny Street elevation: 4 arched windows per floor, with herringbone brick infills to first storey lunettes over stone mullions; parapet has panel inscribed in sunken letters NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. The station complex continues west along Nos 13-19 Bonny Street with offices and former waiting rooms above goods stores, all faced in the same yellow brick, with arched windows and stone mouldings. Royal College Street elevation: projecting Classical arched entrance with a pair of four-panel doors below fanlight; cornice has guttae of cut brick. INTERIOR: triangular booking hall has coffered roof with central cast-iron column. Booking office inserted 1984 replacing earlier, and of no interest. Original stairs with cast-iron rails leading up to both platforms. West-bound platform retains its projecting canopy supported on cast-iron columns with ornamental spandrels. HISTORICAL NOTE: this station was opened in December 1870, replacing an earlier station of 1850 on a different site. It is the only survivor of the Italianate brick station buildings erected in the 1870s along the North London Railway to replace the original wooden buildings of the line, and one of the few suburban stations of the period to survive in London. The extent of the ancillary buildings along Bonny Street suggests that this was a busy station of some prominence. Renamed Camden Road station in 1950, the station was refurbished in 1984 by British Railways and the Greater London Council. (Buck G: A Pictorial Survey of Railway Stations: London: -1992: 154-155; National Railway Museum: North London Railway. A Pictorial Record: York: -1979).

Listing NGR: TQ2916284216